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How to extract part of an XML message from the log file in the form of a table?

ravikanthbapath
New Member

Hi,

I have a log file named Audit.Log and has content something like below.
< AuditLog >
< Comp name="samsung"/ >
< Actor name="actor"/ >
< User name="reguser"/ >
< LogComments> This is a test message< / LogComments >
< TimeStamp="455454545xxx"/ >
< / AuditLog >

I would want to retrieve the data as

This is a test message , reguser in the form of a table.

could someone throw some light onto the same, I am not much familiar with the splunk commands.

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dineshraj9
Builder

Try | xmlkv in your search. It will extract all tags as fields with corresponding values on the left. Then you can format your query to show it as table.

Reference : http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.3/SearchReference/Xmlkv

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